Barely a day goes by without a shocking or distasteful comment appearing on a video, and YouTube, the largest video sharing website in the world, has finally come up with a solution. For the purpose of making the platform better for the billions of people that use it, Google-owned YouTube has unveiled an enhanced artificial intelligence moderation system that will revolutionize people’s interactions on the social networking site.

The new system, named as CommentSense, has the ability to analyse the comment content and context in real time with the help of sophisticated machine learning algorithms. This is unlike conventional moderation tools which employ filter by keywords or having actual human moderators, CommentSense can comprehend irony, foresight conflict situations and even prevent them.

This approach is beneficial because it provides for a finer degree of control and has a better rate of accuracy than the other methods of moderation while, at the same time, it offers a higher level of security against such content.

Perhaps one of the unique selling points of CommentSense is the fact that it is able to give feedback to users whose comments have been deemed sensitive by the system. Rather than just banning or moderating such comments, the system will advise the user on how to alter the comment in a more positive way.

This educational approach is designed to enhance the quality of discussions at the platform, as well as to contribute the problem-solving of the issues related to the further enhancement of the communication skills of the users of the modern Internet.

YouTube’s decision to pump a lot of money into using artificial intelligence technology to moderate content follows several years of controversy over the fact that many comment sections on the site are so toxic they are practically devoid of any redeeming social value.

Cyberbullying and hate speech, misinformation and spam are just some of the issues that comments on YouTube have been considered to be since their inception. This is a perception that the company aims at changing with the help of CommentSense to ensure that all the users are welcome.

CommentSense will be initially launched only for the VIP channels, and then gradually for all the channels during the next year. In this first stage, YouTube will pay particular attention to how the system works as well as the reactions of the creators and the users, which will help the company to adjust the output of the algorithms to the highest efficiency.

Many of the creators in the platform have also given a guarded welcome to the new moderation system. For many, it is considered as an interesting new feature that could be useful to interact with their audience much more directly and meaningful without having to moderate every input manually. However, there have been concerns of bias with AI and the fact that moderation ought to be transparent at all times.

In response to these issues, YouTube also said it would perform periodic evaluations of CommentSense and deliver reports on how the system is moderating comments to creators. The company has also stated clearly that human intervention will also be used in the moderation process and a team of specialist will always be on hand to monitor the performance of the AI.

That is why the introduction of CommentSense is a great advancement in the development of combating toxic content on the Internet. If successful, then it could establish a new benchmark for content moderation across the various social media platforms, and thus may well alter the manner in which other companies address the problem of moderating user-generated content.

Looking at the future of CommentSense, it can be concluded that the results will be instrumental in defining the future development of YouTube. Taking into consideration that billions of comments are posted every day, it is possible to estimate the scale of the influence of this AI-powered moderation system on the further development of the online discussion.

It remains to be seen whether CommentSense can radically change YouTube’s comments and turn them into the open, creative, and constructive places they should have become.